How do you build a tech career, and a community, that makes room for the whole person?

In this episode of Flip the Focus, Jen and Producer Nico sit down with Renece Brewster. Funder, Founder, Leader and community builder, for a conversation about falling into tech, finding your people, and turning personal experience into systems that support others.

We walk through Renece’s story from a fast growing startup to a love for scaling businesses, and eventually building and selling her own company to News Corp. She shares how becoming a mother also exposed how quickly women can be made to feel invisible at work; an experience that reshaped how she leads, hires and builds community.

You’ll hear why she rejects the idea that you have to be an engineer or deeply technical to belong in the industry, and how becoming a young mother shaped the way she leads. Renece also explains why work-life balance is often the wrong framing, and why whole humans make stronger teams and better businesses.

Renece shares why intentional community matters in a sector facing a projected shortfall of 1.3 million tech workers in Australia by 2030, and offers a hopeful counterpoint to AI anxiety: the technology may be moving faster and at greater scale than anything before, but if enough people use it for good, it can create more opportunity, more iteration and more positive outcomes.

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